Creating Strategy

At Leadership+Design, strategy is an opportunity to chart a course for the future while energizing and engaging your community. Our design-driven process is collaborative, emotionally engaging, and transformational. We help teams look up from the day to day, map the terrain to understand what’s possible, building possible scenarios, clarify your preferred future, and identify possible routes to get there.

Building Teams + Culture

Since group life is both wonderful and messy, great teams don’t get that way by accident. Our work with teams is designed to help you be more intentional as a group. We help teams build a common purpose and sense of identity, gain common tools and language, and learn to identify the patterns of interaction that serve them — as well as those that don’t. Along the way, they become more effective, fulfilling, and human. This work is important for Boards, senior teams, department chairs, and task forces —really, any group trying to work together to move the school forward.

Developing Leaders

Great plans don’t always become reality. Making sustained progress toward the future requires leaders to leverage their humanity, create brave spaces for real conversations, and hold themselves accountable for making progress toward shared goals.

Our leadership development programs help leaders become more self-aware and attuned to their teams as they build a toolkit for managing problems and seizing opportunities.

Redesigning Programs

Your team has the capacity to innovate, but a clear, human-centered process helps give that work structure and purpose.

We facilitate a human-centered program redesign process that helps your community make big decisions thoughtfully, creatively, and inclusively. And by sharing a powerful experience of successful innovation, you build the habits, mindsets, and tools to help your community keep moving forward.